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ICWSM 2011 Data Challenge with 3TB of social media data

Tweet The Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is holding a new data challenge using a new dataset from that includes about three TB of social media data collected by...

February 23, 2011 · 1:49 PM

Did Watson enjoy a head start on Jeopardy?

Tweet IBM’s Watson’s performance in last week’s Jeopardy Challenge was an amazing accomplishment and a demonstration of how our computer systems are becoming more intelligent and capable of...

February 22, 2011 · 9:12 AM

Computer Science publication culture

Tweet There has been an ongoing discussion on the publication culture with the computer science research community in CACM, carried out through a series of editorials, opinion pieces, articles...

February 14, 2011 · 12:28 PM

Six lessons for the age of machines

Tweet On the eve of the big Jeopardy! match, Peter Norvig’s opinion piece in the New York Post (!) today, The Machine Age looks at AI’s progress over the past sixty years and lays out six...

February 13, 2011 · 11:19 PM

Science on Dealing with Data

Tweet The current (11 February 2011) issue of Science is a special issue on Dealing with Data. It includes a collection of free, online articles that “highlights both the challenges posed by the...

February 12, 2011 · 6:52 PM

Data Citation, Peer Review and Provenance

Tweet In today’s ebiquity meeting, Curt Tilmes showed an interesting figure showing the how often a particular dataset (MODIS snow cover data) was mentioned in a paper vs. how often it was...

February 8, 2011 · 12:02 PM

From tables to 5 star linked data

Tweet The goal and vision of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of connected and interlinked data (items) which can be shared and reused by all. Sharing and opening up “raw data” is great; but...

December 25, 2010 · 11:56 AM

Tim Berners-Lee on protecting the Web in the December...

Full Title: Tim Berners-Lee on protecting the Web in the December Scientific American Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses the principles underlying the Web and the need to protect them in an article...

November 19, 2010 · 10:41 AM

Recorded Future analyses streaming Web data to...

Full Title: Recorded Future analyses streaming Web data to predict the future Recorded Future is a Boston-based startup with backing from Google and In-Q-Tel uses sophisticated linguistic and...

October 30, 2010 · 8:09 PM

Facebook Browser gets a low F1-score in my book

Facebook has rolled out Facebook Browser as what sounds like a simple and effective idea — recommend pages based on on a user’s country and social network. My impression is mixed, however. While...

September 12, 2010 · 1:14 AM

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